Senators clash over corporation tax amendment drive
Senator Root will lead the fight for the corporation tax amendment with Cummins and Bailey heading the opposition. An editorial by La Follette accused Taft of throttling the income tax move. Sherman appeared in blue jeans in the senate. Aldrich presented Taft's corporation tax plan as the senate voted to raise shoe duties from 15 to 20 percent ad valorem.
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Root
Cummins and
Bailey
la Follette
Taft
Sherman
Senate
Georgia
Aldrich
German chancellor vows re signature after reform passes
Prince von Buelow announces he will re sign when the finance reform measure is approved by the Reichstag. James Hamilton Lewis of Chicago returns from world tour praising an American China commercial alliance. Milwaukee’s “boy mayor” Sherburne M. Becker arrives in San Francisco from canal zone visit at Taft invitation. Edith Dodds marries Robert L. S. McClure in London. Maj. Clarke of the Twenty sixth infantry is dismissed for misconduct in financial affairs. Bryan Jr. and Helen Berger wed at Grand Lake Col. Newton D. Alling elected president of the American Institute of Banking. Chattanooga chosen for the next meeting.
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Prince von Buelow
Germany
Reichstag
James Hamilton Lewis
Chicago
New York
Lewis
Sherburne M. Becker
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Canal Zone
Taft
Edith Dodds
Illinois Board of Pharmacy
London
Robert L. S. McClure
McClure
Charles J. T. Clarke
William J. Bryan, Jr
Helen Berger
Grand Lake
Newton D. Alling
American Institute of Banking
Chattanooga, Tenn
Strikes, trials, and crimes sweep across many states
A two day Pittsburg street car men strike ends after Mayor Magee led efforts costing over 200000. In Maryland a Woodill murder jury doubts the killer while two other cases raise questions about responsibility. A Wright brothers failure to test due to strong winds, a Sigel murder theory shift in New York, and a Nebraska bank law challenge also feature.
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Pittsburg
Magee
Woodill
St. Michaels
Robert RE. Eastman
Wright Brothers
Washington
New York
Sigel
Leon Ling
J. L. Webster
Lincoln
Neb
A. H. Cook
Akron
Erie
Sterling
O. Mario Santoni
Memphis
Tenn
William Green
White Plains
N. Y
George R. Huntington
Sao Line
Edmund Pennington
Pittsburgeconfield
Henry Clifford
Conrad Haines
Bow Street
London
J. S. Bache & Co
Fitzherbert
Sam Hildreth
Sergt
Academa
Philippines
Sergt. Hewson
Lake Killarney
Ireland
Cho Wong
Portland
Ore
Barbour
Delegates Fill A L A Conference At Bretton Woods
Roughly 700 delegates attend the American Library Association annual meeting at Bretton Woods New Hampshire as other items report a tuberculosis care ferry donated to Brooklyn Red Cross and various unrelated world events and local incidents.
End of Street Railway Strike Reached in Pittsburg
Officials of Pittsburg Railways Co and Amalgamated Association members signed an agreement after Mayor Magee mediated. Discharged workers will have proper hearings before superintendents and swing runs will be shortened by 50 percent, ending two days of costly disruption.
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Pittsburg
William A. Magee
Pittsburg Railways Co
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Allegheny County
Magee
Car Company
Greater
Greater Pittsburg
Heat wave toll rises as New York floods streets
New York City suffered a 15 minute cloudburst amid a prolonged heat wave. One man died and several were injured as streets and cellars flooded while health officials reported nearly 200 excess deaths compared with last year. Chicago and Philadelphia also faced heat related deaths.
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New York City
United States
New York
Darlington
Chicago
Bernard Bockholz
Carl Sommers
Lake Michigan
Philadelphia
Chancellor Von Buelow Plans Retirement Amid Finance Reform
Berlin reports Prince Von Buelow will resign from the chancellorship once the pending finance reform measure is settled. He remains in office only temporarily to push the bill forward.
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Berlin
Prince von Buelow
Empire
American Editor Honored by Nippon Club in NYC
Hamilton Holt editor of the Independent received the Japanese order of the sacred treasure at an informal dinner in New York City for promoting amity between Japan and the United States.
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New York City
Japan
United States
Hamilton Holt
The
Independent
Nippon Club
Dead Man Found in Box Car in Parsons Kansas
The body of a man believed to be Mack Nelson of Zanesville Ohio was discovered in a box car of the Missouri Kansas & Texas railroad at Parsons Kansas. Police and investigators probe the death and identity.
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Parsons, Kan
Mack Nelson
Zanesville, C
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Militant suffragettes clash with police at Parliament Square
In London the thirteenth suffragette deputation to Prime Minister Asquith ends in arrests of 112 women, including Mrs Pankhurst. A scuffle erupts as she slaps Inspector Jarvis, windows near government buildings are smashed, and crowds confront officers for hours around Caxton Hall and the St Stephen’s entrance.
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London
England
Asquith
Parliament Square
Pankhurst
Solomon
Haverfield
Lord Abinger
Margesson
Lady Margesson
Maud Joachim
Parliament
Caxton Hall
Mrs. Pankhurst
St. Stephen's
Scantlebury
House of Commons
Firecracker memories from a bygone Fourth of July
The interviewee recalls growing up amid frugal budgets and clever dodges to obtain firecrackers. He contrasts prices then and now, describes dawn celebrations in an old cistern, saving green and yellow crackers, and the eerie post holiday scavenging for unspent charges.
Russian Prisoners Revolt in Siberia Amid Escape Toward Alaska
A Nome dispatch reports a band of Yakutsk district prisoners revolted, killed guards, and fled 2000 miles toward East Cape with plans to reach Alaska. Cossacks pursued. four Cossacks killed, twelve wounded. Convicts seized food and tools from an esquimaux camp after resisting natives.
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Seattle
Wash
Nome
Alaska
Yakutsuk
Siberia
Bering Strait
Vladimir Station
Siberia Co
Yakutsk
East Cape
Kalinnikoff
Esquimaux
Brandenburg Acquitted Then Re-arrested In New York
Brandenburg acquitted in New York on grand larceny charges for selling a spurious Cleveland article to the New York Times. He is immediately re-arrested and to be sent to St. Louis next week for trial on fraudulent enticing from the child’s parents, his stepson James Shepard Cabanne third. He was returned to the Tombs in default of $5,000 bail. The kidnapping, admitted by Brandenburg, followed his bail jumping while under indictment. He was located in San Francisco with the Cabanne boy, whom he had found in St. Louis.
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New York City
Broughton Brandenburg
Grover Cleveland
New York Times
St. Louis
James Shepard Cabanne
Missouri
Brandenburg
Cleveland
San Francisco
Five Scalded by Steam on Hull Torpedo Boat
Five men aboard the torpedo boat Hull suffered severe scalds when a boiler tube burst in San Francisco. Fireman B. F. King is believed fatally injured as the vessel sustained only minor damage.
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San Francisco
Cal
B. F. King
Confederate General Cosby dies by gas inhalation in crisis
Confederate General George B. Cosby, a native of Kentucky and one of the last surviving Confederate brigadier generals, committed suicide by inhaling gas in Oakland California after years of paralysis and personal strain.
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Oakland
Cal
George B. Cosby
Kentucky
Scout’s idea of marriage from a Grafton bachelor
Moses P. Stowe, a longtime resident of Grafton Massachusetts, recounts a life without marriage. He declares no woman would enter his home and calls marriage a folly. He charges that many men regret marrying and prefers avoiding romantic entanglements.
Revenge In The Professors Beef Dilemma
The narrator declares a life change to vegetarian roots reversed to vow eating only beef. The line, spoken in a dramatic shift, frames a twist in personal ethics and appetite.
Itching Infant Cured by Cuticura Remedies
A mother describes severe infant eczema on her six month old daughter. Doctors failed to help for months and costly ointments proved ineffective until she used Cuticura Remedies. By the next morning the redness faded and the eczema disappeared. Mrs. P. E. Gumbin of Sheldon Iowa reports in July 1908. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Boston props.
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P. E. Gumbin
Sheldon
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Boston
What Did He Mean Mr Brown and His Family in Front of Lion
Mrs Brown asks John who he would save if the lions escaped. John answers without hesitation that he would save himself first. The anecdote appears in Everybody's Magazine.
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Mr. Brown
John
Mrs. Brown
Everybody’s Magazine
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Washington News
American Library Association
Bretton Woods
Mary Harriman
Brooklyn Red Cross Society
Inland Waterways Commission
Buffalo
Duluth
St. Paul
Mississippi
Ohio
Union and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers’ Association
Vilna
Russia
Robert Eastman
Edith Woodill
Justice Dowling
New York Supreme Court
Howard Gould
William Kaye
United States’ Express Company
Biy
Albert Reese
Cuthbert
American Institute of Homeopathy
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Imperial Bank
Charles F. Hansen
Second Presbyterian Church
Indianapolis
Fort Huachuca
Supreme Court of Arizona
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Kate J. Moeser
Bellevue Hospital
James M. Faul
Diaz
Mexico
Joseph Remillard
Worcester
Mass
C. Rudolph Brand
Huebner-Toledo Breweries Company
Toledo
Jeffries
Fort Riley
Kaw
Benjamin F. Stephenson
United States Senate
Vailla
Hughes
Goshen
Elsie Sigel
Fred NM. Kell
Des Moines
Perry
Mayor Magee
Chancellor von Buelow
Mr. Fattipose
New York Sun
Scout
Massachusetts
Moses P. Stowe
Grafton
Baby
Cutiura
Jenks
Dr.d.jayne
Carters
Geo. Wagner
Windsor
Conn
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